Banoffee trifles

Ingredients
- 6 tbsp tropical fruit juice
- 2 tbsp rum or brandy
- 2 firm bananas
- 8 thin slices from a bought madeira cake
- 2 tbsp Belgian chocolate sauce
- 4 heaped tbsp dulce de leche
- 225g tub mascarpone
- 250ml chilled custard
- a block of dark chocolate
Instructions
- 1
In a large bowl, stir the tropical fruit juice with the rum or brandy. Slice the bananas into the fruit juice mixture and toss together.
- 2
Sandwich the slices of madeira cake with the chocolate sauce, dice it into squares and pile in the bottom of 4 pretty glasses.
- 3
Top with the bananas and rum mixture then add a heaped spoonful of dulce de leche to make another layer.
- 4
Next, beat the mascarpone and custard together until smooth, then spoon on top of the mixture. Chill until ready to serve for up to 2 hours.
- 5
Before serving, run a potato peeler down the flat back of the bar of chocolate to make shavings and scatter indulgently on top of the trifles.

